House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator John Kerry will address the 2010 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference on May 5, joining union members, environmentalists, and community and business leaders for the leading forum in 2010 for turning ideas into action and building a new, green economy in the United States. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Kerry join a growing list of exceptional speakers, including Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter, and many other elected and administration, labor and environmental and community leaders.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to practice law in California? Then you’ll want to attend today's presentation on the California market by Amber Handman, a recruiter with SFB Search in Los Angeles. Her program will highlight the types of clients you might have, practices indigenous to the geographic market, hiring trends, what it’s like to live there and why you might want to practice there. The program will be at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday April 22 (McDonough Room 201).

“It's smokin' out there. That's what lawyers at a half-dozen of the largest energy transactional firms tell The Am Law Daily. With roughly a dozen billion-plus energy-related deals announced in just the past month and a half, including deals involving oil and gas, power, and oil services companies, many firms are seeing their energy-linked M&A and capital markets practices suddenly firing on all eight cylinders.”